Bible being taught in Public Schools

Texas (and other states) are passing Laws to require teaching the Bible in public schools. 

In the case of TX it is to read 13 biblical/historical accounts, and to teach how the Bible shaped America and the West. 

Below addresses several things that people misunderstand about Christianity and the Bible in America. 

Q: Do our founding documents talk about God or Christianity? 

Theres such a push by MZ gen telling others to "get educated" , but fail themselves to do so, and by truth. 

The Constitution does point to US being founded on Christianity, it is infused by its morals, values, & principals of this Faith. Those who came in 1500s through to the time of our founding and through to the early 1960s were from the West. It was all Christian peoples coming here from Christianized Europe & UK. 

The founding documents in the US clearly 100% points to YHWH/Jesus, because that is what they understood, who they understood in truth, of who God is. 

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness." -That's the opening sentence of the United States Declaration of Independence! This was written by our founding fathers. 

Creator was defined by those in the West as YHWH. Created was defined as humans were created by God.  It still means the same because it is what it was meant to say.  America's foundations were laid by the Christian protestant Bible, and society lived by it. Its time to return to its truths and righteous revealed ways. 

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any

other." John Adams, 1798

Who were those "People", people from the Christian West. It was the Faith and upbringing of all who came here to build and create this nation. 

It is time people took the blinders off and stopped pretending this isnt true. And to stop believing in & allowing the brainwashing of liberal activists who tried to rewrite history over the last 30 or so years. You cant change truth or reality. But those who lived in deception need to embrace the truth. 

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Q: What about Seperation of Church and State? 

"Separation of church and state" has been twisted and used by liberals towards anti God campaign and brainwashed MZ generation into thinking it is true. 

No one should use that phrase anymore without identifying an actual supposed constitutional violation, as none exist. 

The phrase separation of church and state has been misused by bad actors to undermine American and its Christian roots & freedoms. It is not in the Constitution and should have no power over people of faith.

That phrase was simply actually in a 1806 letter Jefferson sent to the Presbyterian church "assuring them that the state would stay out of their affairs". It was simply meaning was that the state would not make it's own church (as like it was back in England). It was never made into a law nor put in the Constitution as liberals assume (based on false teaching in schools to push democrat agendas on children). 

The idea of Separation of Church and State was to keep the State out of the Churches business, NOT the Church out of the States business. That's why the people had left England. They werent free thete - the "State" was controlling them... it told them they couldn't even own a Bible much less read any of it, and they HAD to worship GOD when, where and how it told them to. America ensured its foundations yes were of Christianity, but gave *freedom* "within it" to practice as they each understand the Bible. Not to eliminate Christianity or God from the nation nor our schools. 

Congress authorized the printing of the Aitken Bible in 1782, which was the first complete Bible published in an independent America. This Bible is often referred to as the "Bible of the Revolution."

Q: Someone says "I don't want Bibles in public schools."

That thought shows a lack of understanding, because it always was, until recent years. 

Q: Was the Bible ever taught in public schools? 

the Bible was taught in school houses 1600s and then public schools in US from 1837 & continued thru 1960s. It wasnt until a baloney case came up by a hateful athiest (whose daughter was Christian) that prayer in school went away in 1960s and the Bible not long after.

Bibles were commonly used as primers in early American schools, particularly through texts like The New England Primer, which taught reading using biblical content and moral lessons. This practice reflected the intertwining of religion and education during that time. Even study guides and tests were quite in depth on Christian Faith & biblical core truths. By 2nd grade students then understood way more than average Church go-ers today. 

It is not "un-American" for the Bible to be in school even as the primary text by which all classes/studies are aligned to. The school board Thomas Jefferson led chose two books to be used in Washington DC public schools to teach kids how to read in 1805:

1) The Bible

2) Isaac Watts' hymnal

The Bible was a core part of education in colonial schools where they believed literacy was essential for understanding the scriptures. This emphasis on Bible literacy led to the establishment of laws requiring towns to set up schools for teaching reading and writing,... and such education beginning in 1600s thru 1960s/1980s was always part of American school education; quite deeply and intricately woven into it and every day life at school. 

Q: When and why did America remove the Bible & prayer out of public schools? 

In 1962, the [liberal] Supreme Court struck down school-sponsored prayer in Engel v. Vitale, and in 1963 it struck down required Bible reading and the Lord’s Prayer in Abington School District v. Schempp.

Many schools did continue in practice of teaching Scripture into the 1970s and even 1980s across US and in South. At that point off campus classes for Bible education was created, which continued during school hours, and still does today. In depth teaching happens there, (but only the things all bible believers agree on). 

The main place the Bible is taught today is in Christian homes daily and is fortified in Sunday School weekly. 

This nation would be in a better place if it kept positively teaching of the Bible and 10 Commandments in schools to educate our nation and western Faith in God and need for Jesus, which has essential morals and values of any good society, as it teaches us about the attributes God designed in us to live out, and by being born again we can do so, and live under God's special grace snd love. For those who dont obey the Gospel, they live in a nation blessed by God and are blessed by the Christians around them, and their love and generosity, while also recieving God's general grace. Both are like the good gifts a dog recieves from the crumbs of its master.  

In other Christian nations it is the same. Including African ones who long ago recieved this Gospel through the Jewish Christian Apostles and missionaries who spread the Gospel and truth of God from Israel outward to bless the world. These ones, today, come here to share the Gospel with those here who should slreasy know the Bible and Gospel but are so far into secularism, athiesm and other firms if idolatry, to call them to salvation, just as much as how Christians here in US do today. 

And a further look into the Christianity focused school books used in public schools for all of America's history can be examined here.  Along with the 10 Commandments in schools convo.

Q: Who started education and public schools in US/West? 

Schools were started by Christians (and any nation taught under its guiding principles is blessed). Our nation is in the gigantic mess it is in today because one atheist wanted to throw God out. He ruined it for the whole nation [via liberal justices](robbing all the children here since then from knowing its truths and all that the prev generations learned and benefited from it). And he will answer to God for it; destroying a godly nation. That act result snowballed into the mess were living in today; moral-less, degenerate, & perversions and idolatry of every kind.

Q:Was the Bible used in America beyond the primary and secondary schools? 

Yes. The Bible has always was the predominantly book (and still is) used for helping foreigners learn English, in USA. Today there's tech apps and yt, but for most here the Bible was always taught *in person* as the first step in assimilating folk into our nation and culture. It helped with interacting with Americans too.  *It was taught in schools for children and adults as well as in Church as a free ministry to immigrants. 

Today it will probably be used again by Christians who care about Gen Z's illiteracy. A large number of them cant even read today after being shunted through to 12th grade. If schools really cared about students, they would ensure none are left behind, and not let them advance to the next grade if they cant read at that grade level. The liberal equity mindset and all those related policies were detrimental to these students, possibly intentionally.  

Christians, their churches and ministries are an asset to the nation, always have been, because they care, and will once again help people become literate again. Whatever surface level information they get out of the Bible while learning to read can only be a benefit and blessing. 

Q: What are the 10 Commandments? 

Do you mean to know the 10? 

Or do you mean about using them as a schoolmaster to lead people to Christ? 

Q: Were the 10 Commandments also required to be removed from public classrooms by  Courts?

They were never universally "removed" from all public classrooms.

What changed was a series of court decisions about government-required displays in public schools. 

The key ruling was in 1980, when the U.S. Supreme Court decided Stone v. Graham.

The [liberal] Court struck down a Kentucky law that required the Ten Commandments to be posted in every public school classroom, wrongly claiming that the law violated the First Amendment's Establishment Clause that the display was primarily religious rather than secular. The Constitution and other founding documents were created by Christians and those raised under its teachings, morals and principles, so it is *impossible* that theyd create these founding documents contrary to Christianity. Their only religion clarity was that *one* particular "controling" group [Church of England/Catholicism] within what was considered Christianity would not be the religion controlling/ruling over the people. That didnt mean no Christianity, it meant freedom "within" Christianity. 

°Many today are unaware what Church of England/Anglicanism control over a nation means. It is worth looking into. It is nothing like Christianity in America.

The 1980 Stone v. Graham 
The ruling did not ban teaching about the Ten Commandments as part of history, literature, comparative religion, or law.

It did not require schools to remove every existing display in every circumstance.

Rather, the liberal judges decided that mandatory government-sponsored classroom postings were unconstitutional under [the Court's wrong interpretation of] the Establishment Clause, at that time.

°And since then [2010-2020] woke teachers started taking them out of the classrooms and replacing them with perversion flags. Their activist purpose was to encourage depravity and rebellion, to throw off encouraging good morals and values.

In recent years, several states have passed new laws requiring Ten Commandments displays in classrooms, arguing that newer Supreme Court decisions have changed the legal landscape on this topic.

In truth, the precedent for the Bible and 10C being taught in Public Schools was historically already there- in America's entire history! It was never even a consideration that it not be. It wasnt until liberal anti God judges started throwing God out, in the 60s, [when they got into those positions] and continued to do so [when in power], that problems arose. Those over-reaches and atheistic activist rulings are being corrected now. And liberal teachers are being held accountable, [no longer allowed to be rogue agents of Satan, grooming into perversions nor brainwashing kids into their anti-God beliefs].

With these changes, there is hope for America, esp with the out of control behavior of students in public school, could be soon corrected, as they turn back to the Bible; based on morals, values, and good character being taught once again, we could move in the right direction, and make America safe again & a good place to live again. 

Q:What is another good thing that will come out of Bibles being taught in school again, besides kids gaining a basic familiarity with it, "the most popular book of all time"?  

One good that will come out of this in States that follow Texas in incorporating the Bible again (& ones posting the 10 Commandments too), is that those true Christian children in schools (at least those in the "teen" ages) [who are educated at home and church on the Faith] can share the Gospel with the 5.5 million youth in their state, year after year, on into college. And with Gen Z having interest in God & Christianity (renewed interest in US again), the hearers can come to the saving knowledge of Christ by the Gospel. Christians are not converting people- God does that. Satan and his minions will never win, and everyone who is to be saved will be saved according to God's plan. 

Hopefully His will is to turn this nation back to YHWH despite all the idolatry and perversion all around us (as was Rome in the old days) today. The other good thing to come out of this is and this time we are in, is that people are finding answers to things not asked before in the past (where they got solid answers). Among some X and Y Gens, along with some Z'ers never asked questions, or never got good answers before. Apologetics ministries are helping churches educate on Evangelism so that they can go into the world and help guide Boomers, Gen X and Gen Y to answers and the Gospel which saves. I know of people in their 70s, 90s and even at 107 who got saved by Christ. These changes can draw us back to God, heal our land, and continue to bless the world as a light shining city on a hill, drawing people to Christ. Many missionaries we sent to black Africa (in 70s and 90s) are now coming here (joining with us) to point people to Christ too. 

I hope you are among those God causes to be born again. Become a new creation today. Obey the Gospel, and be restored to fellowship with God who created you to have that personal relationship.